James H. Causten,
businessman of Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., who worked to settle
French spoliation claims; John T. Pickett, United States and Confederate
diplomat and army officer, and lawyer of Washington, D.C.; and Pickett's son,
Theodore John Pickett, lawyer of Washington, D.C., who succeeded to Causten's
interest in the claims cases. Correspondence, insurance policies, powers of
attorney, promissory notes, bills of exchange, American and French court
records, ship case files, other financial and legal papers, printed matter, and
other papers relating chiefly to French spoliation claims.